In an excerpt published by Politico from her upcoming book, former Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Donna Brazile lodged some serious accusations, most notably against Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.

Brazile wrote that upon taking the reigns of the DNC as interim chair during the 2016 presidential campaign she discovered financial waste and mismanagement dating back to at least former President Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign.

She blamed much of the problem on her predecessor, Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

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“Debbie was not a good manager,” Brazile wrote. “She hadn’t been very interested in controlling the party—she let Clinton’s headquarters in Brooklyn do as it desired so she didn’t have to inform the party officers how bad the situation was. How much control Brooklyn had and for how long was still something I had been trying to uncover for the last few weeks.”

Her harshest allegations, however, dealt with the apparent agreement the DNC had reached with Clinton to effectively let the presumptive nominee’s campaign take control of the party’s resources with very little oversight.

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Brazile said she dug deep into the issue as a favor to Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who at the time was still competing with Clinton for the nomination.

“When I got back from a vacation in Martha’s Vineyard, I at last found the document that described it all: the Joint Fund-Raising Agreement between the DNC, the Hillary Victory Fund, and Hillary for America,” she wrote.

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According to Brazile, the agreement was signed by the former DNC CEO Amy Dacey and Clinton’s campaign manager Robby Mook, with Marc Elias, the campaign’s general counsel, copied.

She wrote that the document “specified that in exchange for raising money and investing in the DNC, Hillary would control the party’s finances, strategy, and all the money raised.”

Additionally, the Clinton campaign would allegedly retain “the right of refusal of who would be the party communications director, and it would make final decisions on all the other staff.”

The DNC would additionally be required under the agreement to discuss virtually all other aspects of its operations with the Clinton campaign, Brazile wrote, all without Clinton having secured the party’s nomination.

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She acknowledged that parties generally defer to incumbents or candidates who have all but secured their place as a nominee.

“This victory fund agreement, however, had been signed in August 2015, just four months after Hillary announced her candidacy and nearly a year before she officially had the nomination,” Brazile wrote.

The excerpt concluded with her recollection of the call she made to Sanders, who she said responded “stoically” upon learning of the apparent arrangement between Clinton and the DNC.

“I urged Bernie to work as hard as he could to bring his supporters into the fold with Hillary, and to campaign with all the heart and hope he could muster,” she wrote.

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“He might find some of her positions too centrist, and her coziness with the financial elites distasteful, but he knew and I knew that the alternative was a person who would put the very future of the country in peril. I knew he heard me. I knew he agreed with me, but I never in my life had felt so tiny and powerless as I did making that call.”

Politico published a passage from “Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns that Put Donald Trump in the White House,” which will be on sale next week.